2011 Workshop Program


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Monday, August 15


8:00

8:30


8:45

Registration & Breakfast

Welcome & Opening Remarks
Mos Kaveh, Associate Dean (Research), College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota
Xiaoyang Wang & Vasant Honavar, National Science Foundation

Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota
Introduction to the NSF Expeditions in Computing Project
Understanding Climate Change: A Data Driven Approach (pdf | ppt)



Session 1 Chair: Fred Semazzi


9:15

9:35


9:55


10:10

10:30

Slobodan Simonovic, University of Western Ontario
System Dynamic Modelling of Interactions Within the Society-Biosphere-Climate System

David Erickson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Data Mining, Exa-Scale Work Flow and Financially Germane Carbon/Climate Weather on the Evening News (pdf)

Auroop Ganguly, University of Tennessee - Knoxville / Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Climate Change, Urbanization, and the Indian Monsoon Rainfall: Toward Informing Climate Science, Adaptation Decisions, and Mitigation Policies with Data-Guided Methods (pdf)

Habib Najm, Sandia National Laboratory
Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Models (pdf)

Coffee Break



Session 2 Chair: Shashi Shekhar


11:00

11:20

11:40

11:55

12:15

Lawrence Buja, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Climate 2.0: Usable Climate Science and Services for Decision Makers (pdf)

Rupa Kumar Kolli, World Meteorological Organization
Global Framework for Climate Services (pdf)

Alok Choudhary, Northwestern University
Developing Scalable and Power-Efficient Data Mining Kernels (pdf)

Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory
Robust Decision-Making on Climate and Energy Policy (pdf)

Lunch Break



Session 3 Chair: Arindam Banerjee


13:40

14:00

14:15

14:30

14:45

15:00

Nitesh Chawla, University of Notre Dame
Computational Thinking for Climate Data Sciences: From Understanding to Adaptation to Impact

Karsten Steinhaeuser, University of Minnesota
Construction and Analysis of Climate Networks (pdf)

Michael Steinbach, University of Minnesota
Finding Climate Indices and Dipoles Using Data Mining (pdf)

Stefan Liess, University of Minnesota
Interactions of Dipoles and Trends in Climate (pdf)

Shyam Boriah, University of Minnesota
Global-scale Land Cover Change Detection (pdf)

Coffee Break



15:45

Panel Discussion: Climate Science & Policy
Ana Barros, David Erickson, Leonard Hirsch, Rupa Kumar Kolli, and Fred Semazzi (pdf)


17:00

18:00

Time for Discussions, etc.

Poster Session & Dinner

Tuesday, August 16


8:00

8:30

Registration & Breakfast

Welcome & Recap Day 1



Session 4 Chair: Nagiza Samatova


8:40


9:00

9:20

9:40

10:00

10:15

Soroosh Sorooshian, University of California - Irvine
The Important Role of Observations in Model Testing, Parameterization, and Modification: Presentation of Case Studies in Semi-Arid Regions and Large-Scale Irrigation Areas (pdf)

Ana Barros, Duke University
Mapping and Exploring Water Cycle Extremes and Nonlinearities from Data (pdf)

Forrest Hoffman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Data Mining for Climate Change Model Intercomparison

Peter Brecke, Georgia Institute of Technology
Linking Earth Systems Models to Social Population Agent-Based Models Through Geography (pdf)

Shashi Shekhar, University of Minnesota
Spatial Data Mining Issues in Understanding Climate Change (pdf)

Coffee Break



Session 5 Chair: Auroop Ganguly


10:45

11:05


11:25

11:40


11:55

James Elsner, Florida State University
Spatial Grids for Hurricane Climate Research (pdf)

Young Kwon, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Advancement of the Operational Hurricane Modeling Effort in EMC/NOAA and Collaboration Efforts with Research Community (pdf)

Nagiza Samatova, North Carolina State University
Accurate Forecasting of Adverse Spatio-Temporal Extreme Events (pdf)

Fredrick Semazzi, North Carolina State University
Broader Impacts of the Application of the Combined use of Data-driven Methodology and Physics-based Weather and Climate Prediction Models (pdf)

Lunch Break



Session 6 Chair: Michael Steinbach


13:15

13:30

13:50

14:05

14:20

Abdollah Homaifar, North Carolina A & T State University
Similarity Quantification of Climatic Images and Tropical Cyclone Tracking and Intensity Estimation (pdf)

Naoki Abe, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Graphical Granger Modeling for Climate Data Analysis (pdf)

Arindam Banerjee, University of Minnesota
Graphical Models for Climate Data Analysis: Drought Detection and Land Variable Regression (pdf)

Snigdhansu Chatterjee, University of Minnesota
Simultaneous Quantiles of Several Variables and their Role in Missing Data Imputation (pdf)

Coffee Break



15:00

Panel Discussion: Data Mining Challenges
Chid Apte, Charles Elkan (pdf), Sara Graves (pdf), Jiawei Han, Hillol Kargupta, and Surajit Ray


17:00

17:45

18:30

Discussions, Downtime, etc.

Board Bus to Loading Dock

Dinner Boat Cruise - Closing Remarks